Heated grips and new bar ends

Had the first chance to use my heated grips today and all I can say is that they are excellent! While I'll admit the ends of my fingers were still cold, the rest of my hand stayed nice and toasty and when I stopped the tips soon warmed up.

Due to the fitment of the new grips my old bar ends wouldn't fit as the grips are slightly longer. As such I asked my Father if he could make up some new ones for me with the exact fitting needed. He has and I have a nice set of aluminium ends for the bike. I just need to polish them up and clear coat them (stop the from tarnishing) and I can get them installed. Picture on the right.

ER-6F Fan and colour options

OK I'll admit it, I do like the ER-6F and even more the new 2009 model. The only thing that I do wish is that it would be made in more colours. It seems that most motorbike manufactures are scared of colour. I don't mind the green and blue that the ER-6F seems to be coming in, but what about a sexy black or post box red?

Playing around on the computer I have manipulated the image of the bike to give a feel for the other colours I feel should be made available on the bike.













That said it is easy enough to have it resprayed but why should we have to pay the extra money when it wouldn't cost much (anything?) more to supply them out of the box like it.